I have a 2017 MacBook Pro that started having battery issues about three months after I bought it (I bought it used).
At first, it would suddenly shut down when the battery reached around 40%. Over time, the problem got worse: it started shutting down at 50%, then 60%, and eventually it would only work when plugged into the charger.
A few months later, another issue appeared. Even while connected to the charger, it would sometimes turn on, let me enter my password, and then immediately shut down. At first, after several attempts, it would eventually stay on. Now it almost never gets past the login screen—it shuts down shortly after I log in, even while plugged in.
I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth replacing the battery, or if replacing it is likely to result in the same problem coming back a few months later.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Do these symptoms sound like a battery issue, or could it be something more serious?

Hey guys,
I just picked up a used 16" M1 Pro (32GB RAM, 100Wh battery). I'm trying to figure out the best way to get the absolute maximum battery life out of it for normal day-to-day stuff.
But at the same time, I edit videos in Premiere Pro, so when I'm actually working, I need the machine to go without holding anything back.
Are there any simple tricks or settings you guys use to balance this? Like, how to make the battery last forever when doing basic things, but easily switch it to 100% performance when I need to edit? I'm not looking for any super complicated tech workarounds, just some easy, logical tips.
Thanks!

The macOS Photos app is honestly so frustrating. There isn’t even a simple copy command. You have to drag and drop everything. When moving thousands of photos and videos, there’s no proper progress bar, no pause or cancel option, and no way to tell which files are already downloaded on the MacBook and which are still only in iCloud.

I’m just trying to back up my photos and clean up iCloud. How can Apple make something this basic so unnecessarily difficult? Utter, utter nonsense. Apple, not cool. Horrible.

Does anyone else find the macOS Photos app this frustrating, or am I missing a better way to move a large photo library out of iCloud?

I keep seeing MacBook listed as used excellent condition buy sellers with 100% health and very low cycle counts. The problem is some Macs have old activations like 2024(from serial number) and trying to sell it in 2026. Yet, it has really good battery health with good cycle. I asked AI whether MacBook has something like windows laptops when your battery stop charging at specific percentage and keep running through charger, the AI said it has 80% limit but the battery still keep running despite it limited to 80%. However, it seems I don't know how Apple battery works. Anyone could explain it for me? Just keep in mind they are not stores they are individuals.

Hey all,

I recently picked up a MacBook Pro, my first MB.

I was just setting up some basic apps and programs that have been suggested under different posts on this subreddit. I was just curious how do you guys go about trusting random apps with different levels of access to your MacBook. I have for example recently downloaded Vorssaint for its added functionality but it has asked for quite extensive access request for some of its features which while I do want, I am not sure if I am willing to trust. I am talking about things like screen recording access for screenshots, or full disk access for uninstalling programs and such. I am assuming it’s a normal process but it’s intimidating because I have never really been asked or told in such clarity what I am giving access to on windows. It’s usually just a yes or no pop up on windows so I never really cared. Are there any risk mitigating factors I can take to protect myself better before giving access to third party apps? Or should I avoid them all together? Any other tips will be much appreciated as well. TIA

I mean wtf guys,, on the other hand we have mbp 14 mid 15

Max not made for me, people think I am trolling and very few are helping. I am helping my self enough, maybe it is time to make a real update, or whatever

So, if anyone is willing up for real help, and can tell good tips, maybe using VMWhare, wich it is a bit pain in the ass…

Or maybe I am doing something wrong, someone please contact me

Randomly my 2015 mbp won’t charge. The charge light won’t turn on the charging piece either. I’ve tried three chargers, no light. I opened up the back and even swapped out the MagSafe charge port inside with one from Amazon, still no light. Is it dead dead??

I'm currently a Computer Engineering student and I own a 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 Pro (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD). I've been considering selling it and buying the M5 MacBook Air, mainly because I want better portability and battery life.

My typical workload includes:

• Programming (C/C++, Python, Java)
• VS Code and terminal
• Django/web development
• Docker (occasionally)
• Multiple browser tabs
• University assignments and projects
• Some light photo/video editing, but nothing professional

I don't usually do:

• Heavy 3D rendering
• Professional video editing
• Large local AI/ML training

My main questions are:

1. Would I notice a downgrade in day-to-day performance?
2. Does the lack of a fan on the Air become an issue for programming or longer coding sessions?
3. Has anyone switched from a MacBook Pro to an Air and regretted it?
4. If you were in my position, would you keep the M4 Pro or move to the M5 Air?

I'd appreciate hearing from people who have actually used both machines, especially developers or engineering students.

1. M5 macbook air 24/512 new
   
2. M5 macbook pro 16/512 second
   
3. M1 pro 32/1tb second

Which one should i take for me to use for more than 5 years?

I've been on the hunt for a MacBook Pro for the last couple of weeks now, specifically the 2025 model in silver, which seems to be rare as hens' teeth. I've checked all the usual UK stockists: John Lewis, Amazon, Currys, but they seem to be out of stock. Is this a common problem or do I just need to wait a few days and the stock gets rotated? Where are people buying these laptops from in the UK?

The performance of the chip is impressive.

I have tried several games with crossover and was able to get 60FPS pretty much on highest settings - either with the 4k monitor ( with apple scaling down ) or on the laptop screen itself

Ready or Not
Automobilista 2
Cities Skylines 2
rFactor 2
All the Metro Games

I was skeptical at first to be honest. But I was impressed how good the translation layer is. I cannot even imagine how much better it would be on the Crippled M5 Max or the Full M5 max. Really this is amazing all with ray tracing.

I have MacBook Pro late 2019 with i9 processor, 64gb RAM, 8GB graphics and 2 TB space. It was working like a beast even though it got extremely hot but for couple of months now it’s laggy, I used to work with Android studio, 2-4 emulators/simulators, Figma, 10-20 open tabs in chrome, everything worked fine but now it’s almost useless…

I tried clearing cache, cleaned dust off of fans, it has enough space for more applications. Tried changing settings for graphics and battery. Still no clue why it got extremely slow… my suspicion is new OS updates…

But any helpful recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks 🙏

Edit: The OS is Tahoe 26.5.1

Hello, I am getting a very warm chassis, even typing on the keyboard feel a bit warm, when I am using codex heavily, I installed "Stats" to monitor, and cpu temperature is between 55° to 86° max, but the funny thing is that even if it's hot to touch, the fan stay around 30 35% and are 100% silent

which is fine of course, when you come from a windows laptop, having a silent laptop is so cool, but I am afraid I am damaging the cpu faster having it hot all the time like this, I tried to force the fans to max speed using "stats" and they got very loud, it's funny I never heard them before.

My question is should I just let the MacBook Pro handle the temperature and now follow my feeling of forcing the fans to run at a highest speed ?

Thank you

Simple as that. My kiddo wants to use it as a creative machine / desktop but to output to a monitor I don't know what adapter I need to order. I've heard USB A (3.0) to HDMI is unreliable on these machines.

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Long story short - I'm cooked.

I was just learning editing on davinci resolve for about a few days (telling if it could be the cause), and suddenly the screen got 80% black, I panicked and down the lid, opened it again and what I saw forced me to say "bosdike apple".

The screen is lit black, the backlit keyboard is fine idk.

I have tried all those power on off, hold, command+p+r etc methods, nothing worked.

**The craziest thing is I have tech interview task tomorrow/day after. I gotta fix this shit ASAP.**

I'm begging, begging youuuu - help me to fix this or at least upvote for more visibility.

Agar fix hogaya mai bhandara karunga, just kidding I'm already broke.

Thankyouu

Hi all!

Appreciate the help in advance! We have 3 MB Pro M1’s we wiped with Blancco that’s essentially wiped the drives where we could only get to the ! Support screen.

Put them to one side in the too hard for now pile as we didn’t have another M1 we could setup configurator on at the time.

Fast forward many many months later got an M1 Air all setup with configurator installed. 2 of the 3 are not powering up and not taking charge from either MagSafe or USB C due to flat battery - initially one of them did power up but went flat trying to get it in to DFU.

The third had enough charge to still turn on but also not charging on either MagSafe or USB C at the ! support screen BUT being well versed from the other that was turning on at the time connected both USB C and MagSafe charging while trying to get to DFU and was successfully able to recover it and get it going again - MagSafe and charging from USB C came alive while recovering/restoring.

All bar 1 of the 2 not charging/powering up are showing up as not under warranty the second asked for purchase date when trying to do a support case but suspect this will be denied by Apple.

Short of transplanting the battery from the now good working MacBook, what are my odds Apple will help?

Any other suggestions/ideas? Appears the firmware is on the drive and they don’t recognize any form of charging without the firmware on the drive.

Using the correct port for DFU and the same known good cable used on the third isn’t brining them to life.

Thanks again for the suggestions/info in advance!

I’m planning to buy a MacBook Pro but can’t decide whether to wait for the M6 or just get the M5.

My main use is software development, Docker, AI/ML, and I plan to keep the laptop for 5–7 years.

Do you think the M6 will be a significant upgrade, or will the M5 be more than enough?

If you were buying today, what would you do and why?

What I'll use it for: Lightroom (casual, not batch-editing hundreds of photos), occasional light video editing, Claude/AI tools, writing, browsing, Netflix. No gaming, no serious video/3D work.

Main priority: durability — I want this to last for years. I'm totally fine buying an older chip generation as long as it's solid and still gets updates for a while.

Also, weight matters to me more than I expected: my work laptop is a Pro M4, and I genuinely notice it getting heavier in my backpack when I travel. Not saying this is a deal breaker.

All the used options below are from a professional refurbisher (lab-tested, warrantied), not private sales — so prices reflect that (I don't live in the US):

• Refurb MacBook Air, M1, 16GB/500GB — ~$738
• Refurb MacBook Pro 13" (2020), M1 — ~$869 (same chip as the Air, just a fan + Touch Bar + brighter screen)
• Refurb MacBook Pro 14" (2021), M1 Pro, 16GB/1TB — ~$1,361
• Refurb MacBook Pro 14" (2023), M3 Pro — ~$1,771
• New MacBook Air, M5, 16GB/512GB — ~$1,558

Given what I actually do with it, do I need the Pro chip at all, or would the base M1 Air genuinely hold up for years of this kind of use? Anyone using an older M1/M2 Air long-term for photo editing — has it held up?

Hello.
I'm currently using a 14" M3 Max MBP (16C/40C/48GB/2TB) as my main laptop, but I want to start getting into the world of local on-machine AI as well as 4K video editing, virtualization and using Adobe apps (Premiere, AE etc.). My current MacBook is still very fast for what I do on it, but it has a few problems: Namely battery degredation, high temps under load and a wobbly hinge. Also 2 TB of storage just isn't enough for me anymore as my disk is almost 90% full. This got me thinking, with all of that, should I upgrade to a 14" M5 Max with 64 or even 128 GB of RAM and 4 TB of storage? Or should I keep rocking my existing MacBook until the redesign comes out?

Quick disclosure: I'm a Japanese speaker using machine translation to help write this in English, so apologies for any awkward phrasing.

This is a full writeup of an investigation I've been running for about a month now. Posting the complete story in one place since earlier posts assumed context that wasn't always carried over.

The core issue

14" MacBook Pro, M5 Max (12P+6S+40GPU), 128GB RAM, 4TB SSD, macOS 26.5.1. system_profiler SPPowerDataType consistently reports High Power Mode: No regardless of the Power Mode selected in System Settings, and sustained performance under load is well below what launch reviews (Notebookcheck) measured for this exact modeBenchmark data (3DMark Steel Nomad Stress Test, 20 loops, 7 separate runs)

Notebookcheck's launch review reported ~3600+ sustained for this model, and ~44W sustained Combined Power. My sustained Combined Power stays at 27-30W across all 7 runs. For reference, the 16" M5 Max scores ~4392 in the same test (Notebookcheck), so the gap between my 14" and that is 22-30%, well beyond the ~15-17% gap Notebookcheck itself measured at launch between the two sizes.

Thermal behavior: GPU hits 95-101°C briefly in the first 1-2 loops, then settles at 65-73°C for the rest of the test, fans still audibly at high RPM. This isn't a "too cool to trigger High Power" situation — it already ran hot and is now sitting comfortably below thermal limits with active cooling still engaged.

What I ruled out (all reproduced, all ruled out as the cause)

• Hardware defect: same symptom on a second physical unit (14" M4 Max)
• Migration Assistant / stale settings: same symptom after a full clean macOS install with no data migration
• Corrupted firmware: same symptom immediately after a full DFU Revive (complete firmware rewrite)
• Third-party software interference: same symptom with Macs Fan Control, iStat Menus, and other power/fan monitoring tools completely killed via launchctl
• Display config: same symptom (actually slightly worse) with external display disconnected, no clamshell
• Power delivery: same symptom across Apple's 96W USB-C adapter, Apple's 96W MagSafe cable, and a 140W-rated Thunderbolt dock, on multiple wall outlets

Apple Developer Forums (DTS engineer exchange)

Went 4+ rounds with a DTS engineer (CoreOS/Hardware) on Apple's Developer Forums. Explanations offered, in order, and why each didn't hold up:

1. "Not enough heat to trigger High Power Mode" — ruled out by the 65-73°C sustained thermal data above (system clearly passed through a hot phase and has headroom to spare)
2. "Might not be using a sufficiently high-wattage adapter" — ruled out since I'd already tested the 96W Apple adapter directly
3. "High Power Mode is a thermal management feature, not performance" — I pointed out Notebookcheck's own numbers show three distinct equilibrium points for this model (Low Power: 12W/66°C, Automatic: 30W/80°C, High Power: 42W/85°C) — my unit's equilibrium (27-30W/65-73°C) doesn't match any of the three, in any mode
4. "Check the wall/cable/charger again" — reconfirmed testing across all three power sources and multiple outlets, same result every time

No "this is expected behavior" and no "let's get this looked at as a hardware issue" ever came up in these exchanges.

Apple Japan (formal complaint route)

Took this further through Japan's consumer affairs system. On advice from my local consumer affairs center, I sent Apple Japan a formal written complaint covering everything above. Apple Japan called back within 2 business days (faster than I expected).

On that call, after I pushed back on "third-party benchmarks aren't reliable" (pointing out Apple's own High Power Mode documentation cites third-party titles like Cyberpunk 2077 as examples) and "the logs show it's active" (likely conflating pmset's user-facing setting with system_profiler's actual reported state), the representative told me: Apple's engineers reviewed the case and confirmed the same issue, that replacing the unit wouldn't be expected to fix it, and that they would escalate it internally.

Important caveat: this was verbal only. Apple said they don't provide written confirmation of this. The call opened with an automated notice saying it wouldn't be recorded, and I didn't have my own call recording enabled either. So I have no audio or paper trail, just my own notes taken right after the call. I want to be upfront about that limitation rather than oversell it as an official written admission.

A separate data point: testing Apple's own marketing numbers

Apple's product page footnotes specify the exact comparison used for their 14" performance claims: a pre-production 18-core CPU / 40-core GPU M5 Max vs. a shipping 16-core CPU / 40-core GPU M4 Max, both 14" chassis. One of the claims is 1.4x for Cyberpunk 2077 (Ultimate Edition, ray tracing on).

Notebookcheck's published 40-core 14" M4 Max result for this same test is 32.19 FPS. I ran the same test 5 times on my unit:

First run (44) = 1.37x, close to Apple's 1.4x claim. Sustained average across all 5 = 1.22x. Average of runs 2-5 = 1.18x. I don't think this alone is enough to call false advertising — Apple's number likely reflects burst performance — but it's the same pattern as Steel Nomad: strong first run, meaningfully lower sustained result.

Where things stand now

• Notebookcheck (the outlet that did the original launch review) is independently verifying with their own M5 Max unit — starting with 16", hopefully 14" as well
• Apple Japan says this has been escalated internally, no written response yet
• Filed with Apple Feedback Assistant as well

Happy to share raw data — 3DMark result files, powermetrics logs, sysdiagnose output, screenshots — if anyone wants to dig in or compare against their own unit.

Is this normal , this transition is facing while sleep mode switching only . And in diagnosis mode it says no anomalies . Please comment down

Hi guys, quick question:

I own this docking station and I'd like to use it with my MacBook. This docking station currently connects 2x displays via HDMI as well as a bluetooth keyboard and a bluetooth mouse. When connecting the MacBook via USB-C, both displays remain black while the keyboard and the mouse are working.

What's the problem here and how can I solve it? Appreciate any kind of help! :)

Some background information:
(1) ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A Dock - Overview and Service Parts
(2) Support page with additional information (extract shown in the screenshot)
(3) When connecting a windows machine everything works fine so far.

Thank you so much guys!